Ytrog wrote:Maybe we should make those epubs ourselves. The tipitaka is readily available on access to insight and could be converted to epub.

I presume that the site maintainers are working on that. My guess would be that the html files that you see there, and the epubs, are automatically generated from some more general mark-up format. At least, that would be the obvious way to do it, rather than mess with html...

Ytrog wrote:Maybe we should make those epubs ourselves. The tipitaka is readily available on access to insight and could be converted to epub.

I presume that the site maintainers are working on that. My guess would be that the html files that you see there, and the epubs, are automatically generated from some more general mark-up format. At least, that would be the obvious way to do it, rather than mess with html...

Ytrog wrote:Maybe we should make those epubs ourselves. The tipitaka is readily available on access to insight and could be converted to epub.

I would gladly help out.

I recently bought In The Buddha's Words in epub format from iBooks. Wow... It's really really nice to have that book, along with about 10 other books , in such a convenient format. I can fit them all in my pocket now. I also carry Mindfulness in Plain English by Ven. Gunaratana, Satipatthana Vipassana by Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw, The Noble Eightfold Path by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, and Wings to Awakening by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

That's nice. It even processes correctly for me once I comment out this line:\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem} % Voor elegante scheikundige formuleswhich is OK, since there are not many chemical formulas in the document...

Did you use some automatic translation to LaTeX? That would be very handy for doing nice printouts of Suttas.

As I said above, I presume that A2I has source files in a more general format than html and could probably eventually do this automatically, much like some newspaper websites have a "print version" button.

No, I have been busy this evening doing it all by hand. Took me over 4 hours.

That's nice. It even processes correctly for me once I comment out this line:\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem} % Voor elegante scheikundige formules

It's from a template I made for my documents. I did my graduation paper (or how that's called, it's not a thesis) with it.

As I said above, I presume that A2I has source files in a more general format than html and could probably eventually do this automatically, much like some newspaper websites have a "print version" button.

Probably can generate it from the data in the database, but I don't have access to it and the aren't publishing everything to PDF or ePub themselves, so I have no other way.

Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.

mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments

If you see any unskillful speech (or other action) from me let me know, so I can learn from it.

They are both MASSIVE ebooks, 16 megabytes for the Mobi and 11 megabytes for the Epub.It's a quick and dirty conversion using Calibre auto-convert, but it works.The hyperlinks and contents pages work fine, but there are also links to other pages of Access To Insight that aren't in the Sutta Pitaka, so they are basically dead links unless you have internet access on your ebook.

Please share the links around and publicise them elsewhere until someone makes something better.

With metta

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Then, saturated with joy, you will put an end to suffering and stress.SN 9.11

I remember back in the 90s, everything was in plain text with the funky markings of a homemade markup language in it anticipating the arrival of HTML. I spent many hours converting my favorite BPS files into HTML.

In reading the scriptures, there are two kinds of mistakes:One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.

James, How were you able to convert the ATI tipitaka section with calibre? I just tried doing that with the december 2011 local pc version of ATI from the index.html on the tipitaka subdir, calibre wouldn't even read it in. I want to do the conversion for the ATI vinaya section and make that into mobi and epub...

The experts do not say that one is a sage in this world because of view, or learning, or knowledge, Nanda. I call them sages who wander without association, without affliction, without desire.The Buddha, Sn.V.8.2 (1078)

frank k wrote:How were you able to convert the ATI tipitaka section with calibre? I just tried doing that with the december 2011 local pc version of ATI from the index.html on the tipitaka subdir, calibre wouldn't even read it in.

Yeah, I can't repeat my previous success either, it won't do it. I don't know enough about Calibre to work around the problem, unfortunately.

Then, saturated with joy, you will put an end to suffering and stress.SN 9.11

Hi to all, I have converted the biography of Ajahn Mun written by Ajahn Boowa from Acrobat PDF to Microsoft Word.(source: http://www.luangta.com/English/site/book8_biomun.html)I'm not an expert about Calibre software: I hope that some user of this forum can convert the .doc file in the epub format!Note: the file .doc attached does not contain the photos of the original book.

The heart of the path is SO simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are. That is all I do in my own practice. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. - Ajahn Chah